Areas of Focus
- Food Biotechnology
- Lactic Acid Bacteria Transcriptional Regulation
- Lactic Acid Bacteria Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis
- Lactic Acid Bacteria Selection and Fermentation Process Optimization
- Lactic Acid Bacteria Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology
Work Experience
- Current - Shanghai University of Science and Technology - Professor, Doctoral Supervisor
Academic Background & Achievements
- PhD in Health Sciences and Engineering
Publications
- Comparison of gal-lac operons in wild-type galactose-positive and -negative Streptococcus thermophilus by genomics and transcription analysis, Xiong, Z. Q.; Kong, L. H.; Meng, H. L.; Cui, J. M.; Xia, Y. J.; Wang, S. J.; Ai, L. Z., 2019
- Genomic and phenotypic analyses of exopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Streptococcus thermophilus S-3, Xiong, Z. Q.; Kong, L. H.; Lai, P. F.; Xia, Y. J.; Liu, J. C.; Li, Q. Y.; Ai, L. Z., 2019
Awards
- Multiple grants including National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Basic Research Program of China, and Shanghai Natural Science Foundation
